Renate Tobies

Renate A. Tobies (born January 25, 1947)[1] is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics known for her biographies of Felix Klein and Iris Runge.

Tobies grew up in East Germany, and studied mathematics and chemistry at Leipzig University.

on the history of chemistry education, Die Entwicklung des allgemeinbildenden Chemieunterrichts auf dem Gebiet der DDR unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ideologischen Erziehung (1945 bis zum VIII.

[2][3] After briefly teaching pharmacy, she took a position in Leipzig's Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences, specializing in the history of mathematics.

[2][3] The German reunification led to a drastic reduction in the size of the Leipzig institute, and in 1993 Tobies took a Sofja Kowalewskaja Visiting Professorship at the University of Kaiserslautern.